British mezzo soprano Hanna-Liisa is an alumni of the National Opera Studio, and studies with soprano, Nelly Miricioiu. She is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music and ENO's Opera Works Programme.

The 2017/18 season include Mayor's Wife in Katie Mitchell's staging of Jenufa for Grange Park Opera - in their inaugural season at their newly built theatre, the title role in Orfeo ed Euridice with Longborough Festival Opera, the role of Flora in a new production of La Traviata with the Nederlandse Reisopera, and she will cover the role of Arsace in Händel’s Partenope at English National Opera. She will sing Kate Pinkerton in a new production of Madame Butterfly with Iford Arts in July 2018 - joining them as a New Generation Artist for the season - and will cover Tisbe (La Cenerentola) and Helene (War & Peace) for Welsh National Opera in the Autumn, as well as Varvara in Katya Kabanova with Scottish Opera in Spring 2019.

The 2016 season included an international debut with Dutch National Opera/Opera Zuid/Nederlandse Reisopera as Fidalma (Il Matrimonio Segreto) in March 2016, and UK debuts with Grange Park Opera as Wowkle (La Fanciulla del West), and with Longborough Festival Opera as Ruggiero (Alcina) in July/Aug 2016. She was the alto soloist in Handel's Messiah with Nederlandse Reisopera, at Le Carre Theatre in Amsterdam.

The 2015 season included the World Premiere of Nigel Osborne's "Bosnian Voices" with the Liverpool Philharmonic 10/10 Ensemble, an appearance with the Oxford Lieder Festival, and a return to Bayerische Staatsoper as Ensemble in Monteverdi's Orfeo. She was a 2015 Les Azuriales Young Artist, and a finalist in the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme auditions at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.